How to eliminate "tire fatigue" before you can not escape from the current situation or do reckless actions

ByFinn Frode

The important decisions and tasks are more exhausted than done at the end of the dayIt's better to wake up in the morning and do it in the first three hoursThere are things to be said. Nonetheless, it is difficult to do all the decisions in the morning, so you can make decisions without causing a "tiring fatigue" state "VARY"Professor of business school explains about.

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People make hundreds of "decisions" a day.


The decision ranges from light things like "Let's eat lunchtime" and "Let's make ring tones for smartphones" from big ones, "Which university should I go to" and "Which house will I buy?"


However, in our previous studies, we know that there are limits to the decisions people can make on the day. Therefore, if you just make a decision all day, people will get exhausted.


When a person falls into a state of tiring exhaustion, self-control is lost, and it makes a reckless decision ......


It is mentally closed, and it will not take action even though it is not accepting the present situation.


So, as a way to avoid the fatigue of decision, Professor Nicole M. Coomber of the University of Maryland produced what is called "VARY". VARY is an acronym for "Values", "Automation", "Rational Decision Making", "Intuition".


First, I will look at "Values". People have their own values, so what is important to you depends on who you are. Therefore, a person's "best decision" does not necessarily match another person's "best decision".

So when you decide something, let's imagine two buckets. The first bucket contains values ​​that you should ultimately aim for, such as "happiness of family", "financial security", "social justice".


And the other bucket contains "value as means". This bucket contains "my own behavior" that we do to give the final results drawn above, such as honesty, fairness, reliability, kindness. These two buckets will serve as the basis for making decisions.


Once you have made your values ​​clearer, next, think about what you can automate among the decisions you make.


There are things that can be automated as well as important decisions as well as outsourcing decisions that are not important to someone.


For example, this means that "10% of salary is turned to retirement savings before seeing details", "Ring alarm when leaving to dine with family", "Everything to eat" every time I will do diet and exercise without it ". Successful people are doing this without disturbing these matters. And that key is in "habituation". By making it a habit, you can be in the state of "I'm done already" before "make self-control work and make a decision on each occasion."


Of course, not all decisions can be automated.


For complex matters that can not make automatic decisions, we will approach "intelligent decision".


First of all, I think of the "values" I thought first, I will list the options and set criteria for evaluating the options. Then, we will assign rankings to the options against standards. This way, you can make intelligent decisions based on reasonably ranked choices.


However, certain decisions may be more important than entering data into a spreadsheet.


That is "intuition." It is not necessary to throw all intelligent decisions, but it is important to overlook the overall relationships of things, such as your emotions and hypotheses, and make decisions.